Welcome Home Ministries – Africa June 2006

Welcome Home Ministries – Africa
June 2006
“To Love, Care, and Pray Destitute Babies Back to Health, or into Jesus Loving Arms.”
Dear Welcome Home Friends and Family,
Thank you for your ongoing partnership
which enables us to minister daily to 61
babies with the love of Christ.
THANK YOU!! Bill Henning
After nearly 11 years (in mainly retirement
years) of faithful service for Welcome
Home hosting the headquarters, chairing
the board and doing the finances Mr. Bill
Henning has resigned. Even though Bill
has never been to Uganda personally, his
ministry has touched the lives of hundreds
of Ugandan children, and also the lives of
the workers. What an inspiration!
That is why our headquarters have moved
back to Orange County (Disneyland area).
**Please note our new address**
PO Box 9771, BREA, CA, 92822
Ugandan News:
Watoto Orphanage thanks Calvary
Chapel (Capistrano Beach, Ca) for
their gift of 140 lbs of SHOES !!!
(Our older children move on to Watoto)
Children NEWS
The mumps outbreak was contained
down to 8 mild cases. For the size of our
home and the potential for it to spread
we considered so few cases a miracle.
We are very thankful to the Lord that so
few were affected. We isolated the 8
children at the staff house to protect the
rest. Also some of the children have
persistent irritating skin rashes and
would appreciate your prayers for them.
• Brian is now a very happy much
healthier little boy who is crawling and
singing and on the road to full recovery.
He will be on 6 months antibiotic treatment for his TB. He is enjoying a normal healthy diet. It is incredible what a
good friend you can become when you
come to a starving child with his first
taste of good food instead of a shot. His
opinion of you changes in just one
taste.
• Timothy is still waiting for his trip to
the US for open heart surgery.
• Patricia and Nathan continue to improve in overall health and are gaining
the weight needed.
• Billy has returned to his beloved
Goose Hollow Road with all his High
Court and Immigration proceedings in
Uganda and Kenya completed. He had
one baffling question that brought a
smile “Mom, when did all these African
Americans come to Uganda to live?”
• New Baby John who is about 3 to 4
months old came to us from a ministry
who had been caring for him since his
mother from Rwanda was killed in a car
accident. It is not known who he is, except that he is a beautiful healthy little
boy loved by his Heavenly Father.
• Miriam, who is to be adopted later
this year with her brother Moses, has
Mitral Valve heart problems. Please
keep her in prayer.
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Joan and Bea from California sent funds
for special foods and a party for all the
staff and children. Balloons, bubbles, music and dancing were a real hit. The
change in menu was a special treat for all.
The children and the staff really enjoyed
the cakes that were baked for them. They
also enjoyed having a few of the local
volunteers, social workers, probation officer, and others, come celebrate with them
Sandy and Craig at the party
A first for Welcome Home!!!!
A 50th Wedding Anniversary was celebrated early by volunteering for a month at
Welcome Home by Craig and Sandy (who
are no longer in their sixties). Sandy came
to bless our preschool teachers and our
preschoolers. It took a week for everyone
to understand the different accents and
then things were off and running.
Teaching and classroom skills were imparted to our teachers. It is easy to see
how the children have benefited as Sandy
worked with the class (above) demonstrating new techniques to the teachers.
Two more morning classes were added to
give the children more class time. Wonderful artwork and crafts now decorate the
main dining room and an office.
PREEMIE HOUSE (9): Jaqueline, John, Joshua Angelo, Mercy, Nathan, Paul, Patricia, Precious and Veronica Rose
BABY HOUSE (19): Agnes, Allan, Brian, Emmanuel, Grace, Isaac, Jeremiah, Jesse, Joel, Joseph, Joshua, Margaret, Melissa, Moses, Pius, Richard,
Sarah, Shammah, and Timothy
TODDLER HOUSE (33):, Amos, Andrew (1), Andrew (2), Becky, Billy, Dafin, David, Elizaphan, Hayley, Hope,
Jeremiah (1), Jeremiah (2), John Otata, Jonah, Jonathan, Joshua, Lawrence, Linda, Lisa, Lois, Lora, Lukas, Michelle, Miriam, Noah, Paul, Peter, Rachael,
Rachael Mukisa, Rosie, William, Wilson and Zachariah.
W ELCOME HOME MINISTRIES -AFRICA, PO Box 9771, BREA, CA, 92822, Mandy Sydo (714) 282-7050 email: LMSydo@sbcglobal.net
Our African address: PO Box 1043, Jinja, Uganda. Visit our babies on line: www.welcomehomeafrica.com
Welcome Home Ministries – Africa
June 2006
“To Love, Care, and Pray Destitute Babies Back to Health, or into Jesus Loving Arms.”
(cont.) BONUS 2ND PAGE
A big thank you to these Southern California schools and churches for sending
Sandy so well equipped with school supplies, diapers and children’s underwear.
Calvary Chapel School Capo Beach,
Community Presbyterian Preschool, Gloria Dei Lutheran Preschool, Laguna
Woods Calvary Church, Heritage Christian
Fellowship, and friends and family.
Enterprise Seeding
Distinguished Visitor
FIELD TRIPS
The children had 2 wonderful field
trips. One trip 36 of them went to the village of Mary Clair who went home 2
months ago. They all personally shopped
at the village store (above) with their own
coin for a candy, met up with Mary Clair,
raced through the village chasing chickens
and ducks, played in the long grass near
the corn and saw cows and goats.
Going home, they went to the Nile Resort
(above) high up on the banks of the river
to play on their playground equipment.
The other trip was a treat from a donor to
take 15 of the preschoolers out for fries
and an ice cream and a browse along the
main street shops.
Hope’s dad at his new store.
Please pray for business success:
In May, 6 small businesses were started
with funds from Calvary Life Fellowship
(Mandy’s Home Church). They were with
families that need a start, so that they can
support their children when they are returned to their families from Welcome
Home. There are 2 clothing business, 2
small grocery stores, plus a woman selling
fish and a woman selling charcoal. Twelve
children’s lives depend on these ventures
to turn out well. We taught the relatives as
much as we could in a day, how to run a
business.
The Right Reverend Bishop Willigers of
Jinja Diocese graced us with a visit. Our
common goal is caring for needy children.
Volunteers
Father (Alan)
A Bundle of clothes being delivered to the
Mother of Laura, Lisa and Lois (triplets).
Some very wonderful people in Wisconsin
supplied all the needed funds for the AprilMay maintenance for the facility. The local
builder, plumber, electrician, and exterminator appreciated the business. We had
two large termite mounds forming in the
garden where the children play, so they
had to be removed.
And daughter (Dianna 12) below
Would you pray about coming to join our
team of workers? Please contact the
Operations Director Mandy Sydo at
LMSydo@sbcglobal.net or. 714) 282-7050
We thank you so much for your faithful
support of the children, and for your
prayers for the burdens of our hearts.
Your Welcome Home family
PREEMIE HOUSE (9): Jaqueline, John, Joshua Angelo, Mercy, Nathan, Paul, Patricia, Precious and Veronica Rose
BABY HOUSE (19): Agnes, Allan, Brian, Emmanuel, Grace, Isaac, Jeremiah, Jesse, Joel, Joseph, Joshua, Margaret, Melissa, Moses, Pius, Richard,
Sarah, Shammah, and Timothy
TODDLER HOUSE (33):, Amos, Andrew (1), Andrew (2), Becky, Billy, Dafin, David, Elizaphan, Hayley, Hope,
Jeremiah (1), Jeremiah (2), John Otata, Jonah, Jonathan, Joshua, Lawrence, Linda, Lisa, Lois, Lora, Lukas, Michelle, Miriam, Noah, Paul, Peter, Rachael,
Rachael Mukisa, Rosie, William, Wilson and Zachariah.
W ELCOME HOME MINISTRIES -AFRICA, PO Box 9771, BREA, CA, 92822, Mandy Sydo (714) 282-7050 email: LMSydo@sbcglobal.net
Our African address: PO Box 1043, Jinja, Uganda. Visit our babies on line: www.welcomehomeafrica.com